Seventeenth-Century Tidbits #7: A broomstick’s-eye view of London
This is wonderful!…
Seventeenth-Century Tidbits #6: The Colour of Carrots
In the seventeenth century most carrots were coloured purple!…
Seventeenth-Century Tidbits #5: Sex and the City in 17th-century England
Women's gossip about their sex lives in seventeenth-century England:Sex & The c17th City…
Seventeenth-Century Tidbits #4: More about bras
Just when you think you know something someone comes along and turns it all upside down! There I was - along with pretty much everyone else who'd bothered to give the matter a second thought - all cocooned in my certainty that the early modern breast was corseted, and someone goes and digs up a…
Seventeenth-Century Tidbits #2: Before the Bra – the Radical Option
As the nameless and disreputable-looking lady above and the Duchess of Monmouth below attest, the radical option was simply to go without! Find out more here.…
Seventeenth-Century Tidbits #1: Ladies Spat in the Theatre!
On the 25th of January, 1661, Samuel Pepys ‘went to the Theatre, where I saw again “The Lost Lady,” which do now please me better than before; and here I sitting in a dark place, a lady spit backward upon me by a mistake, not seeing me, but after seeing her to be a pretty…
